Firefighters from several towns near Quinchia are working to find the missing miner, whose condition is not known.

The La Amapola mine is between the towns of Irra and La Felisa on the shores of the Cauca River, near Risaralda’s border with neighboring Caldas province, and some 300 kilometers (186 miles) west of Bogota. EFE

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